Label attachment for cigar-boxes



(R0 Model.) G. H. FESSENDBN.

LABEL. ATTACHMENT POR GIGAR BOXES.

Patented Oct. 8,,1 889."

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CLARENCE H. FESSENDEhL OF SYRACUSE, NEWV YORK.

LABEL ATTACHMENT FOR CIGAR-BOXES.

SPEGIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 412,488, dated October 8, 1889.

Application filed May 27, 1889. $erial No. 312,202\ (No modem To aZZ whom it may concern.

. Be it known that I, CLARENCE H. FEssEN- DEN, of Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga, in the State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Label Attachments to Cigar-Boxes and Analogous Packages, of which the following, taken in conne'c tion with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description.

v This invention relates to labels applied to cigar-boxes, candy-boxes, and analogous packages placed in an open condition in show cases or on counters, for display of the contents of said boxes or packages. Inasmuch as itis desired to place said boxes or packages olosely side by side, it becomes neces sary to either turn the lids clear over against the back of the box or tear the lids from the box, and therefore the labels or advertisements, which are usually on the inner side of the lid, are unavailable for the purpose for which they are designed.

The object of this invention is to obviate the said defect and to enable the manufacturer of the cigars or candy or other goods packed in boxes to furnish the dealers with labels which are inexpensive and safely attached to the boxes or packages, and readily placed in position for displaying the labels when the boxes or packages are deprived of their lids and placed in position for exhibiting the goods; and to that end my invention consists in the combination, with the box or package, of a label provided with abase by which it is rigidly secured to one of the vertical sides of the interior of said box or package, and the main portion of said label being free and extending from the top edge of the .box or package, and adapted to fold across the top of the interior thereof when closed, and to stand erect, self-sustaining, when the lid is removed, all as hereinafter more fully described, and specifically set forth in the claim.

In the annexed drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a cigar-box provided with my improved label, and showing the same in position for displaying the contents of the box; and Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse section of the said box in its closed condition.

B represents the cigar-box, and G the lid thereof.

Zdenotes the label, which may be of any desired shape and of any ornamental design. The label consists of a stiff sheet of paper, which I pasteat its base a, lengthwise to the inner side of one of the vertical walls of the body of the box. The niain portion of said label is free and adapted to sustain itself independently in an erect position above the top .of the body of the box when the lid is removed therefrom, as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings, and is also sufficiently flexible to allow it to be folded down across the interior of the box, on a line parallel with and in proximity to the top edge of the body, when the lid is closed, as shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings.

Having described my inventiomwhatl claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Pat- The combination, with the box, of a label pasted at its base lengthwise to the inner side of one of the vertical walls of the body of sand box, and having its main portion free and adapted to sustain itself independently in an erect position above the box, and to fold across the top of the interior of the box on a line parallel with and in proximity to the top edge of the box, substantially as described and shown.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name this 24th day of May, 1889.

GLARENCE H. FESSENDEN. [L. s,]

Witnesses:

C. L. BENDIxoN, (3. H. DUELL. 

